Everything was bigger in Baalbek. The Temple of Jupiter was one of several huge structures in the city, and miraculously the second-century Temple of Bacchus (pictured) is still standing, having survived the rigours of the Romans, the Byzantines, multiple Arab dynasties, Crusaders, the Mongols, the Ottomans and several earthquakes. Stones of eye-watering size were quarried and cut for Baalbek's construction, from the 750-tonne blocks used in the Temple of Jupiter's podium to the so-called Forgotten Stone that weighs in at 1,650 tonnes.
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